Theatre News: The Wheel Theatre Company presents a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull.

The
Wheel Theatre Company’s new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull opens this week at the DC
Arts Center in Washington, DC. This production runs for three weeks from March
14-30, 2019 and is adapted & directed by The Wheel’s artistic director, Jack Read.

On
a summer’s evening, at a makeshift theater by a lake, a young writer’s new work
is performed. In the wake of its spectacular failure, its audience – all
connected by love – confront their own regret, grief, mortality, pettiness and
loneliness. The Wheel Theatre Company’s new adaptation of Chekhov’s comedy is
an ode to our first drafts and our failures, to our most bewildering
infatuations, to our futile, comic search for reason and to our inexplicable
ability to endure.

The
Wheel Theatre Company is a theatre company committed to producing works both
new and rediscovered from all over the globe. They believe that no two
performances are exactly alike; with every audience, there are new experiences,
new sights and sounds, new thoughts and feelings. Together, performers and
audience create an ensemble that will never again be in the same place at the
same time. To this end, The Wheel is dedicated to telling stories about
bringing human beings from all walks of life together.